China News Service, April 13th. According to the "Central News Agency" report, the new crown epidemic in Europe crossed a dark milestone on the 12th and the cumulative death toll exceeded 1 million.
The World Health Organization warned that despite all the efforts made by all walks of life to curb the spread of the epidemic, the number of infections is still increasing exponentially.
On April 10, local time, French official epidemic data showed that the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in France exceeded 5 million, and the number of severely ill patients with new crowns continued to increase.
The picture shows an ambulance driving past the Place de la Concorde in the center of Paris.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Yang
According to official data compiled by Agence France-Presse, as of 18:30 GMT on the 12th (2:30 a.m. Beijing time on the 13th), the number of deaths from the new crown in 52 European countries and regions reached 1,000,288.
According to AFP, the latest available data show that nearly 60% of deaths in Europe occurred in these six countries: Britain, with 127,100 deaths; Italy, with 114,612 deaths; Russia, with 103,263 deaths; France, with deaths 99,163 people; Germany, 78,452 people died; Spain, 76525 people died.
According to the "Central News Agency", the United Kingdom was once the European country with the most severe epidemic. After successfully promoting the vaccination plan with a number of lockdown measures, the number of deaths and confirmed cases in the United Kingdom has dropped significantly from January.
On the 12th, the British government further relaxed the "foot-free" measures implemented in England to prevent and control the new crown epidemic.
Italy was also the worst-hit area in Europe, but hundreds of people took to the streets in Rome on the 12th to protest the anti-epidemic lockdown measures.
France has now become the country with the largest number of infections in Europe. The cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown has exceeded 5 million. The authorities are expanding the scope of vaccination.
France has now opened the new crown vaccine to people over 55 years of age.
On the other hand, Maria van Kokhov, technical director of the World Health Organization's health emergency project, said: "We are now at a critical moment of the epidemic." "The trajectory of the epidemic is increasing exponentially."
According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, the new crown virus has caused more than 2.9 million deaths worldwide and more than 130 million people have been diagnosed.